Textual Criticism Colloquium

There has been a Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament in Birmingham over the last few days. I have not been able to get to the colloquium so far but plan today to be at the entire day's events and it looks pretty interesting. Here are the details:

The Birmingham Colloquia on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
The Fourth Colloquium
18--21 April 2005

The Colloquium Programme is available, and today's programme looks like this:

Wednesday (Textual Criticism and the Gospels)

7:45 – 8:30 Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 Paper 1 – Dr. Peter Head ‘Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem: A Historical Perspective from 1500 to 1900’

10:00 – 11:00 Paper 2 – Dr. Eberhard Güting ‘Our text critical analysis of ‘minor agreements’ and their role in contemporary solutions of the Synoptic Problem'

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee

11:30 – 12:30 Paper 3 – Prof. Josep Rius-Camps ‘The issue of so-called harmonisation between Luke and Matthew/Mark in Codex Bezae: some light on the Synoptic Problem’

12:30 – 1:45 Lunch

2.00 – 2:45 Paper 4 – Prof. Pier Franco Beatrice ‘The Gospel according to the Hebrews in the Apostolic Fathers’

2:45 – 3:30 Paper 5 – Dr. Wim Hendriks ‘Textual Criticism (Gospels) and Patristic Evidence (concerning Mt 6, 33, Mc 6, 3, Lc 12, 31, Jn 14, 2 in the Church Fathers)’

3:30 – 4:00 Afternoon Tea

4:00 – 5:00 Response from Dr. Mark Goodacre

6:15 – 7:15 Supper

I hope to report back later.

Update (Thursday, 09.04): Michael Theophilos asks if the papers are currently available or if they will be published somewhere. As far as I know, there are currently no plans to publish. And I am afraid that they are not currently available either. In fact none of the speakers sent me their papers in advance so I had to do my response "on the hoof". More on the colloquium, with pictures, later.